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Recusant Book Reviews

Vinita Agrawal
Dances with the Cranes by Maj. Gen. G.D. Bakshi SM, VSM (Retd) (Pilgrims Publishing, 2013)

Brian Beamish
Waters of the Night – Complete Poems 1974-84 by Howard Mingham (Caparison, 2010)

Leon Brown
The Selfish Capitalist: Origins of Affluenza by Oliver James (Vermillion, 2008)

Norman Buller
Wondering About Many Women by Derwent May (Greenwich Exchange, 2011)

Felix Cassiel
Isabella by Caroline Maldonado (Smokestack, 2013)
The Meaning of the Shovel by Martin Espada (Smokestack, 2014)
One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich by Graham Fulton (Smokestack, 2014)
Sister Invention by Judith Kazantzis (Smokestack, 2014)
New and Selected Sorrows by George Simic (Smokestack, 2015)
The Tattooist’s Chair by Karl Riordan (Smokestack, 2017)
Eating Thistles by Deborah Moffatt (Smokestack, 2017)
Liberties by Victoria Bean (Smokestack, 2017)
If The Symptoms Persist by Francis Coombes (tr. Alan Dent, Smokestack, 2018)
Clydebuilt by Owen Gallagher (Smokestack, 2019)
Terrace by Richard Skinner (Smokestack, 2019)
How Death Came Into the World by Nancey Charley (Smokestack, 2020)
Sleepers by Joe Colley (Smokestack, 2020)
Subsidence by R.M. Francis (Smokestack, 202o)
This Noise Is Free by Andy Green (Smokestack, 2021)

Jenny Farrell
A Marxian Reading of Wuthering Heights

Jen Hadfield
Dancing With Big Eunice by Alistair Findlay (Luath Press, 2010)

Geoffrey Heptonstall
Write Me into Bed with Casanova Craft by Fiona Sinclair (Original Plus, 2014)

Steve Mann
Stained Glass by Sally Richards (Survivors’ Press, 2007)

Alan Morrison
Storming Heaven in a Book: A Poet of Compassion. Preface to O The Windows of the Bookshop Must Be Broken, David Kessel, Collected Poems 1970 – 2006 (Survivors’ Press 2006)
We’re Going On! – The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham (edited by Hugh Purcell, Smokestack, 2006)
A New Wasteland – Timeship Earth at Nillennium by Michael Horovitz (New Departures, 2007)
Austerity Britain 1945-51 by David Kynaston (Bloomsbury, 2007/8)
Whistling Shade – Literary Journal, Summer 2008 (Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
A Shadow in Yucatán by Philippa Rees (Trafford Publishing, 2008)
Genteel Messages – Gwilym Williams (Poetry Monthly Press, 2008)
Bedlam – London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2008)
The Sixties Press Anthology of Gregory Fellows edited by Barry Tebb and Debjani Chatterjee (Sixties Press, 2008)
A Scattering by Christopher Reid (Arete Books, 2009)
Amazement (Creative Futures, 2009)
The Night Shift – Poetry of the Night. Foreword by John Humphrys. Edited by Michael Baron, Andy Croft & Jenny Swann (Five Leaves Publications, 2010)
The Wrong Jarrow by Tom Kelly (Smokestack Books, 2009)
Glaciation by James Fountain (Poetry Monthly Press, 2010)
Pessoa – A Vision by Simon Jenner Selected by Mario Petrucci (Perdika Editions 14, 2010)
Dancing With Big Eunice – Missives from the frontline of a fractured society by Alistair Findlay (Luath Press, 2010)
Dreams of the Caucasus by Norman Jope (Shearsman, 2010)
Common Cause by Francis Combes (translated and introduced by Alan Dent, preface by John Berger, Smokestack, 2010)
Scamp by Roland Camberton (1951; republished 2010. New London Editions/ Five Leaves Publications)
Here Is The New Political Poetry: Letter to Auden by N.S. Thompson (Smokestack, ), A Rose Loupt Out – Poetry and Song Celebrating the UCS Work-In (edited by David Betteridge, Smokestack 2011), Caught by Victoria Bean (Smokestack, 2011), Bonehead’s Utopia by Andrew Jordan (Smokestack, 2011), Copyrighting the War and other Business Sins by Clare Saponia (Olympia Publishers, 2011), Alone With the Terrible Universe by Alan Britt (Bitter Oleander Press, 2011)
Illusion & Austerity: Verses in an Advertising Culture: A ‘Caudwellian’ Take on Two Volumes: Advertorial Verse versus Adversarial Verse: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere (Faber, 2012) v Porterloo by Niall McDevitt (International Times, 2012)
Light Shining in Middlesbrough: On the Saltmarsh by Ruth Valentine (Smokestack, 2012), Still Life Gordon Hodgeon (Smokestack, 2012), Kids Bob Beagrie & Andy Willoughby (Mudfog Press, 2012), union – New and Selected Poems Paul Summers (Smokestack, 2011), Woke up this Morning Brian Docherty (Smokestack, 2012), Both Steven Blyth (Smokestack, 2012), dante in the laundrette sean burn (Smokestack, 2012)
1948 – A Novel In Verse by Andy Croft, illustrated by Martin Rowson (Five Leaves Publications, 2012)
Red Hill – Selected Poems 2000-2012 by Peter Branson (Lapwing Publications, 2013) & Getting On – Poems 2000-2012 by Alexis Lykiard (Shoestring Press, 2012)
Hegemonick by Andrew Jordan (Shearsman, 2012)
Footprints by Peter Blackman, Preface and Notes by Chris Searle (Smokestack Books, 106 pp; 2013)
Jolly Roger by Keith Howden (Smokestack Books, 2012) / Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely (Smokestack Books, 85pp, 2013)
Barkin! by Mike Jenkins (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2013)
Your Call Keeps Us Awake –Selected Poems of Rocco Scotellaro Translated by Caroline Maldonado and Allen Prowle (Smokestack Books, 2013)
Who Are the English? Selected Poems 1935-81 – Jack Lindsay, Introduced by Anne Cranny-Francis (Smokestack Books, 2014)
Two Greece-related Smokestacks: Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos (tr. Bill Berg, First published by Pyxida, Athens 1954; Smokestack,2014); Crisis – 30 Greek Poets on the Crisis (edited by Dinos Siotis, Smokestack, 2014)
A Pelican More Frequent – the return of Pelican Books (2014)
Yoke and Arrows by Rob Hindle (Smokestack, 2014)
Paul Bunyan by Larry Beckett (Smokestack Books, 2015)
A Bumper Stack of Smokestacks Part 1: The Oranges of Revolution by Clare Saponia (2015)/ John Berger – Collected Poems (2015)
A Bumper Stack of Smokestacks Part 2: Bones of Birds by Joe Colley (2015)/ Talking to the Dead by Gordon Hodgeon (2015)
Cut Flowers – Selected Poems 1964-2015 by Barry Tebb (Sixties Press, 2015)
Between Stations by Andrew Willoughby (Smokestack, 2016)
Leásungspell by Bob Beagrie (Smokestack Books, 2016)
Occupied City/ Bezette Stad by Paul van Ostaijen. Typography by Oscar Jespers. Translated by David Colmer. Inner design/layout by Katy Mawhood. With an Introduction by David Colmer (Smokestack Books, 2016)
Slave Songs and Symphonies by David Betteridge. Drawings by Bob Stewart (Culture Matters, 2016)
Barry Tebb – Collected Poems 1964-2016 (Sixties Press, 2016)
Brandon Pithouse – Recollections of the Durham Coalfield by John Seed (Smokestack Books, 2016)
Citizens by Ian Parks (Smokestack Books, 2017)
Letters to Randall Swingler by Andy Croft (Shoestring Press, 2017)
Sofa Surfin by Mike Jenkins (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2017)
Velvet Devastations – An Appreciation of the Works of Fran Lock (Dogtooth, Outspoken-Press, 2017) & Contains Mild Peril (Outspoken-Press, 2019)
Sappho’s Moon by Geoffrey Heptonstall (Cyberwit, India, 2020)
The Rites of Paradise by Geoffrey Heptonstall (Cyberwit, 2020)
The Sailors of Ulm by Andy Croft (Shoestring Press, 2020)
The Battle of Heptonstall by Michael Crowley (Smokestack, 2021) & Civil Insolencies by Bob Beagrie (Smokestack, 2019)
Smokestack Lightning edited by Andy Croft (Smokestack Books, 2021)
London Nation by Niall McDevitt (New River Press, 2022)
Ill Nature by John McKeown (Mica Press, 2022)
Federal Gods by Clare Saponia (Palewell Press, 2022)
Reeling and Writhing by Barry Smith (Vole Books/ Dempsey & Windle, 2023)
The Selected Poems of Clive Branson edited by Richard Knott (Smokestack Books, 2023) & The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater edited by Ben Harker (Smokestack Books, 2023)
The Cinephile Poems by Alan Price (High Window Press, 2023)

James Morrison
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters (Fourth Estate, 2007)

Philippa Rees
An Alternative Review of On Chesil Beach (2008) by Ian McEwan

Dave Russell
Amputated Souls – The Psychiatric Assault on Liberty 1935-2011 by Anthony James (Imprint Academic, 2014)
The Dream of Somewhere Else by Wendy Young (Survivors’ Poetry, 2016)
A Lonely Man Circling the Earth – Poems by Stevie James (Leeds Survivors Press, 2017)
Tomas Tranströmer – New Collected Poems (tr. Robin Fulton; Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
Gift – God Runs Through All These Rooms by Duane Voorhees (Hog Press, 2020)

Philip Ruthen
O Resplandor by Erin Moure (Anansi Press, 2010)
Out Is The Word – An anthology of creative writing by members of The Word Is Out writing workshop Founded at the Social Inclusion Hope and Recovery Project (SHARP) a statutory service in Lambeth, part of the South London and Maudsley (SLaM). Hospital Foundation Trust (ed. Anne Cooper) Funded by a Guys and St. Thomas Charitable fund and was founded (Hardcover, SHARP 2012)
Emperor Dragonfly by Sally Richards (Caparison, 2012)
Help Us Somebody – The Demolition of the Elderly by Bob Dumbleton (The London Press, 2006)
open season by Sally-Ann Murray (HardPressd, 2006, South Africa).

Jaydeep Sarangi
Shards & Figments: Poems by Nathalie Buckland (Lismore, Australia, 2013)

Kevin Saving
Against Oblivion by Ian Hamilton (Viking, 2002)
52 ways of looking at Ruth Padel’s 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (Chatto and Windus, 2002)
The Spoken Words (Poets), British Library Board (2003)
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry (Hutchinson, London, 2005)
The Great Modern Poets (Michael Schmidt, 2006)
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Faber and Faber, London, 2006)
Look We Have Coming To Dover! by Dalgit Nagra (Faber and Faber, 2007)
Forever and Anon – A Treasury of Poetry and Prose from the Pen of Author Unknown (ed. Gerry Hanson, JRBooks, 2007)
The Lodger – Shakespeare on Silver Street by C. Nicholl (Allen Lane, 2007)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McKewan (Vintage, 2007)
Young Stalin by Montefiore, S. (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007)
Losing Henry and other stories by Ezra Williams (Sixties Press, 2007)
Remembrance and other poems by Gary Beck (origamicondom.org, 2008)
Two Cures for Love – Selected Poems 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope (Faber and Faber, 2008)
The Big Idea by Antony Archdeacon (AuthorHouse, 2008)
Who Murdered Geoffrey Chaucer? by Terry Jones (et al) (Methuen, 2008)
Poe: A Life cut Short by Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, 2008)
Sacred Blue by Mia Hart-Allison (Visionary Tongue Press, 2008)
Virago Anthologies: Words That Burn (Virago, 2008) & Catching Life by the Throat (Virago, 2006) both edited by J Hart
Stepping Stones, Interviews with Seamus Heaney ed. O’Driscoll, B., (Faber and Faber, 2008)
Bundle O’ Tinder by Rose Kelleher (Waywiser Press, 2008)
Clive James – Angels over Elsinore, Collected Verse 2003-2008 & Opal Sunset, Selected Poems 1958-2008 (Picador, 2008)
A Walk Around The Lakes by Hunter Davies (Frances Lincoln, 2009)
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion (Faber, 2009)
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems ed. Tim Armstrong (Pearson, 2009)
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds Jonathan Cape (2009)
Writing Poetry – creative and critical approaches by Chad Davidson and Gregory Fraser (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Sticky by Andy Croft (Flambard Press, 2009)
A Victorian Class Conflict? by Dr. John T. Smith (Sussex Academic Press, 2009)
The Bard. Robert Burns, A Biography by Crawford, R. (Cape, 2009)
Desperanto by Mike Wilson (Smokestack Books, 2009)
The Poetry Of Sam Silva, Volume 3 – Selected Chapbooks by Sam Silva 2008-2009 (2009)
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell (Duckworth Overlook, 2009)
Richard Skinner (2013), From Here to Timbuktu by Pauline Plummer (2012); Galahad by Domenico Iannaco (Joker, 2010)
Strange Meetings -The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts (Chatto and Windus, 2010)
O the Windows of the Bookshop Must Be Broken – Collected Poems 1970-2006 by David Kessel (Selected, edited and introduced by Alan Morrison, 2nd 2010)
Identity Parade – New British And Irish Poets (ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010)
The Winding Keys by Jan Bradley, Reverie And Rude Awakenings by Tom Jayston, A Coat Of Blanket Dreams by Mary O’Dwyer (all published by Creative Future, 2010)
Not Caild Fireweed Fa Nowt by Peter Street and Kate Houghton (Shoestring Press, 2010)
Poems – Selected by Martin Amis (Faber and Faber, 2011)
The Limerickiad – Gilgamesh To Shakespeare by Martin Rowson (Smokestack Books, 2011)
Family Values by Wendy Cope (Faber and Faber, 2011)
Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon (Virago, 2011)
Smokestack: The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man by Ian McMillan (Smokestack, 2013), Mother Courage and her Children (tr. Tom Leonard, Smokestack, 2014), the light user scheme by Richard Skinner (Smokestack, 2013), From Here to Timbuktu by Pauline Plummer (Smokestack, 2012), Galahad by Domenico Iannaco (Joker, 2010)
The Poet’s Tale – Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales by Paul Strohm, (Profile Books, 2014)
Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson (Yale University Press, 2014)
Clive James – Poetry Notebook 2006-2014 (2014) and Sentenced To Life, Poems 2011-2014 (2015) both Picador
The Essential Paradise Lost by John Carey (Faber and Faber, 2017)
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins, 2017)
Peace and War by Nigel Mellor (Dab Hand Press, 2017)
Admissions by Henry Marsh (Orion, 2017)
Deaths of the Poets by Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (Jonathan Cape, 2017)
The Bughouse: the poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift (Harvill Secker, 2017)
The Waste Land – A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis (Faber & Faber, 2022)

Philip Williams
The Clear Daylight by Peter Branson (Littoral Press, 2021)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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